Elizabeth Hunter Diamond

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  • Willing to experience myself in a new way

    August 8, 2018

  • Unblocking Creative Flow

    August 4, 2018

  • Honoring Roots

    August 4, 2018

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  • Ten years ago today I sat in a Beijing stadium, my clothes soaked through with sweat from hours in 100 degree heat and humidity and polluted air, waiting for the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics to begin. What a bitter sweet memory. I had already chosen to leave my corporate life and was there in Beijing for one final project before selling my Montreal home and moving back to the US. I didn't know what was ahead of me. I just knew I was taking a leap of faith, for a life of greater freedom, authenticity and creativity. At the time, I attributed my frustration, disappointment and powerlessness to the environments I kept landing in. And what I've discovered since leaving was that it's really our inner landscape that creates our experience. That any sense of powerlessness I held within me, against myself, would naturally get expressed in the environments around me. It was my own filter for my experiences. I keep learning this lesson, over and over again. Each time I get the lesson in a new way... there's a new flavor, a new perspective, a new opportunity to fine-tune my own inner experience of freedom and self authoring. Sometimes it takes a dramatic break. A choice to leave a toxic environment to create more space within, so you can hear your own voice, discover your own preferences, give yourself permission to just BE without all of the static. Those moments of choice reflect your readiness for the adventure of becoming. To experience yourself in a new way. It takes courage to be willing to experience yourself in a new way, without knowing exactly what that new way is. It takes courage to imagine something different. Since Beijing, I've made a few more dramatic breaks from environments -- family, relationships, communities. Initially, it's come from a resistance to the environments themselves, where I haven't felt seen or valued or honored. But the deeper truth is that these dramatic breaks have been less about the external environments and more about my own relationship to myself. It's been a day by day journey into my own heart... .........Read the rest at the profile link.
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  • This is what happens sometimes when I’m blocked in my writing. I’m sitting here at my desk typing, and crap (that’s an affectionate term) is splattering onto the screen. This is all going absolutely nowhere. And there’s no end in sight to this nowhere-going. So, I turn on some music. I bounce on the rebounder a few minutes, pumping my arms in the air shouting “this is mine, my space” to that old energy that wants to control and squash my creativity. I go back to the computer… can I write yet? Nope. I pull out the drawing paper and pen. I begin making lines and curves, intersecting and connecting, until I have a composition that fills up the page. Then, I pull out the markers and begin to fill in the spaces. As I’m doing that, my body relaxes. The “got to get it right” part of my personality takes a back seat. I’m simply enjoying seeing the colors fill in the spaces. And pretty soon, ideas begin to flow. One after another, coursing like a river through my creative landscape.
  • I was thinking today about roots. How we admire the growth and blossoming and external display of things. But rarely praise the roots, which make all of this above ground beauty possible. Roots are quiet, not flashy. Yet so deserving of honoring. I began to think of all the things that are roots for me. Daily meditation, solo time in nature, quiet reflection and writing. Among other things. I remember a time when I didn’t have these, and how challenging life was then. Pausing here to give thanks for all the quiet and simple ways I find grounding and nourishment.

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